Gary Martin

A group backing a San Antonio mayoral run by state Sen. Leticia Van de Putte sent a mass news release to media outlets Tuesday announcing its intention to encourage her candidacy. The LVP4SA group sent out the release just days after Van de Putte opened the door to a mayoral run following her unsuccessful campaign […]
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By Mike Ward DALLAS — Former El Paso Mayor John Cook, the Texas Democratic Party’s nominee for land commission, courted votes with a song on Saturday. With his guitar and a cowboy hat, Cook brought delegates to the party’s convention here to their feet with a snappy rendition of the Tom Petty single “I Won’t Back […]
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By Mike Ward DALLAS — Former Cameron County Judge Gilberto Hinojosa won re-election Saturday as chairman of the Texas Democratic Party. Hinojosa tallied 6,999 votes to 364 for Rachael Van Os of San Antonio, Convention Chairman Royce West announced at the party’s biennial convention here. Hinojosa was the first elected Hispanic chair of the party. […]
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By Mike Ward DALLAS – Leticia Van de Putte, the Democrats’ nominee for lieutenant governor, came out swinging Friday night against her GOP opponent, claiming he would limit opportunity for future generations in Texas and bring Washington-style partisan gridlock to Austin “I have seen what Dan Patrick is capable of and I’m not going to […]
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A $25 million scholarship program to enable more than 2,000 undocumented immigrant students to graduate with career-ready college degrees was announced Tuesday by Donald Graham, chief executive officer of Graham Holdings, Democrat and philanthropist Henry Munoz III and former Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, a Republican. “I live in a place where every day I am […]
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